Cakes and Cupcakes · Desserts

Homemade Lemon “Nothing Bundt Cake”

About a year and a half ago, when I was heavily pregnant with my third baby, I got the strangest craving for cake.  To most of you, that probably doesn’t really seem like a strange craving, but for me it was.  I’m not generally a cake person.  If I’m asked what I want for my… Continue reading Homemade Lemon “Nothing Bundt Cake”

Cakes and Cupcakes · Desserts · Fall (Halloween & Thanksgiving)

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake

Whenever you’re making a new recipe from Paula Deen, you know it’s going to be bad.  Or good.  Or so bad it’s good.  Or so good it’s bad.  Do you know what I mean? Butter. Eggs. Sugar. Cream Cheese.  All the bad things that are also the good things. Fall is here! Fall is here!… Continue reading Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake

bars · Breakfast · Cakes and Cupcakes

Blueberry Zucchini Breakfast Cake

Charlie, my 3 year old son, is obsessed with the color “dark blue.”  He has taken the ‘favorite color’ thing to a whole new level. When he’s pretending to be a superhero, and I ask “Oh, are you Super Charlie?” he replies “No! I’m Dark Blue Charlie!”  He has three pair of dark blue underpants,… Continue reading Blueberry Zucchini Breakfast Cake

Cakes and Cupcakes · chocolate · Desserts

Yellow Butter Cake with Real Fudge for Frosting

A rich, buttery yellow cake full of eggs, butter, and cream topped not with frosting, but with warm, straight out of the pan, chocolate-y fudge.

Breakfast · Cakes and Cupcakes

Starbucks Iced Lemon Pound Cake

I don’t like to admit this anyplace where my husband can read it, but I have a real, serious, (read: expensive) Starbucks addiction.  I go there on the daily.  To the point that when we pull up into the drive through, my kids start hollering requests from the back seat for “pink do-duts,” “banilla bean scones,”… Continue reading Starbucks Iced Lemon Pound Cake

Cakes and Cupcakes

“Very Fancy” Strawberries and Whipped Cream Sponge Cake

My daughter is 5 today.  St. Patrick’s Day.  The day for the wearin’ o’ the green.  The day of my people.  So, you can imagine my alarm when she said to me yesterday afternoon “Tomorrow is my birthday, and I’d like everything to be pink, and very fancy.”   I should have known it was… Continue reading “Very Fancy” Strawberries and Whipped Cream Sponge Cake

Cakes and Cupcakes · chocolate

Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

Somehow, my baby boy turned 3 last weekend.  I gave birth to him, and then I blinked, and here we are. Charlie’s favorite thing in the entire world is chocolate.  He would choose chocolate over anything, including puppies, Disneyland, and Paw Patrol.  It is his very favorite thing.  When I asked him what kind of… Continue reading Chocolate Sour Cream Cake